How can God be three persons at the same time?

Answer 1

There are some things that are in the Bible that we won't understand until we get to heaven and your question is one of them

Answer 2

Many religions of Christendom teach that God is a “Trinity,” although the word “Trinity” does not appear in the Bible. The World Council of Churches recently said that all religions that are part of that Council should advocate the belief that there is “one God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit,” that is, three persons in one God. Those teaching this doctrine admit that it is “a mystery.” The Athanasian Creed, of about the eighth century of the Common Era, says that the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost (Spirit) are all three of the same substance, all three are eternal (and hence had no beginning), and all three are almighty. So the creed reads that in the “Trinity none is afore or after other; none is greater or less than another.” Is that reasonable? More importantly, is it in agreement with the Bible?

This doctrine was unknown to the Hebrew prophets and Christian apostles. The New Catholic Encyclopedia (1967 edition, Vol. XIV, p. 306) admits that “the doctrine of the Holy Trinity is not taught in the OT [Old Testament].” It also admits that the doctrine must be dated as from about three hundred and fifty years after the death of Jesus Christ. So the early Christians who were taught directly by Jesus Christ did not believe that God is a “Trinity.”
After Jesus’ death, God raised him to life again and gave him glory greater than he had before. However, he was still not equal to his Father. How do we know? Because later the inspired Scriptures state that God is still “the head of the Christ.” (1 Corinthians 11:3) The Bible also says that Jesus is to reign as God’s appointed king until he has put all enemies under his feet, and that then shall “the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all.” (1 Corinthians 15:28, AV) Clearly, even since his resurrection Jesus Christ is not equal with his Father.

Answer 3

WELL, then, do the Christian Greek Scriptures (“New Testament”) speak clearly of a Trinity?

The Encyclopedia of Religion says: “Theologians agree that the New Testament also does not contain an explicit doctrine of the Trinity.”

Jesuit Fortman states: “The New Testament writers . . . give us no formal or formulated doctrine of the Trinity, no explicit teaching that in one God there are three co-equal divine persons. . . . Nowhere do we find any trinitarian doctrine of three distinct subjects of divine life and activity in the same Godhead.”

The New Encyclopædia Britannica observes: “Neither the word Trinity nor the explicit doctrine appears in the New Testament.”

Bernhard Lohse says in A Short History of Christian Doctrine: “As far as the New Testament is concerned, one does not find in it an actual doctrine of the Trinity.”

The New International Dictionary of New Testament Theology similarly states: “The N[ew] T[estament] does not contain the developed doctrine of the Trinity. ‘The Bible lacks the express declaration that the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are of equal essence’ [said Protestant theologian Karl Barth].”

Yale University professor E. Washburn Hopkins affirmed: “To Jesus and Paul the doctrine of the trinity was apparently unknown; . . . they say nothing about it.”—Origin and Evolution of Religion.

Historian Arthur Weigall notes: “Jesus Christ never mentioned such a phenomenon, and nowhere in the New Testament does the word ‘Trinity’ appear. The idea was only adopted by the Church three hundred years after the death of our Lord.”—The Paganism in Our Christianity.

Thus, neither the 39 books of the Hebrew Scriptures nor the canon of 27 inspired books of the Christian Greek Scriptures provide any clear teaching of the Trinity.

Taught by Early Christians?

DID the early Christians teach the Trinity? Note the following comments by historians and theologians:

“Primitive Christianity did not have an explicit doctrine of the Trinity such as was subsequently elaborated in the creeds.”—The New International Dictionary of New Testament Theology.

“The early Christians, however, did not at first think of applying the [Trinity] idea to their own faith. They paid their devotions to God the Father and to Jesus Christ, the Son of God, and they recognised the . . . Holy Spirit; but there was no thought of these three being an actual Trinity, co-equal and united in One.”—The Paganism in Our Christianity.

“At first the Christian faith was not Trinitarian . . . It was not so in the apostolic and sub-apostolic ages, as reflected in the N[ew] T[estament] and other early Christian writings.”—Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics.

“The formulation ‘one God in three Persons’ was not solidly established, certainly not fully assimilated into Christian life and its profession of faith, prior to the end of the 4th century. . . . Among the Apostolic Fathers, there had been nothing even remotely approaching such a mentality or perspective.”—New Catholic Encyclopedia.

Answer 4

You could study that for the rest of your life. There have been scholarly debates and attempts from learned scholars who attempt to describe God's nature, but agreeably failed.

So good luck with that!

Oddly enough, God is revealed in the bible as God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, without a fourth person, and without contradicting itself about that subject.

Answer 5

Do the math:

1 X 1 X 1 = 1

Answer 6

Man is created in the image of God. Genesis explains God said let US create man in OUR image. God formed man form the dust (flesh) God then breathed in life(spirit) and man became a living soul. God made man above the animals by giving man an eternal spirit. Man is flesh and spirit and a living soul and man is ONE. God is Father. Son and Holy Spirit and is ONE God.

Answer 7

Heavenly Father, Jesus Christ (Gods Son, Our brother), and the Holy Ghost are three separate beings.

http://www.lds.org

Answer 8

God is everything and anything, he is Love, he is the oceans, he is the tree's, he is the mountains, he is the WORD(Bible), he is the Alpha & Omega, He is God, He is the Creator of the Heavans and the Earth, He is the Father of Jesus my Savior, He is the Head of the Body(Church)-He is everything The Father-The Son-And the Holy Spirit

Answer 9

It's an old pagan idea that carried over into Christianity. The trinity of mind,body,spirit. Maiden,mother,crone. The three aspects of the fates ect

Answer 10

This was one the questions I could not understand when I was young, now I understand and respect the trinity...God is our father the son and the holy ghost. God the creator, he sent his son to be born to a virgin whom is Mary, why he would be the son because he came to be born into flesh to save our souls, and we must believe in his son, because only God would have the power to do this, God himself allowed himself to be born a man, because of his Holiness, to die for our sins, so our sins could be forgiven, to leave behind the holy ghost for us to reach out to have him in our hearts. Our bodies are the church, his temple, he lives in me, I hold the kingdom of heaven in my belly. I am a living testimony of the miraculous things God has done for me through me to be who I am today to understand the trinity. My walk with my Lord is awesome, but I go through a lot to serve him, what he had to go through for me doesn't compare to my pain. No matter what I love Jesus. He is my everything!

Answer 11

He can't. There are three, Father, Son and Holy Ghost.
Three separate beings. No mystery there.